Trouble starting cron

I am trying to get cron working and am having difficulties. I installed the following minimal crontab: $ crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (crontab.wbp installed on Tue Jun 29 07:47:31 2004) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna

RE: problem starting cron as a service

Bill, The docs should be /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README. The docs should be there. Todd C. Bowden -Original Message- From: Bill McCormick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: problem starting cron as a service Ok, I missed

problem starting cron as a service

I get this in the win app error log: Event Type: Error Event Source: cron Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 7/21/2003 Time: 2:14:08 AM User: BILLHOME\Administrator Computer: BILLHOME Description: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source (

RE: problem starting cron as a service

: problem starting cron as a service I get this in the win app error log: Event Type: Error Event Source: cron Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 7/21/2003 Time: 2:14:08 AM User: BILLHOME\Administrator Computer: BILLHOME Description

RE: problem starting cron as a service

of cygcheck -s -v -r as an uncompressed attachment might help too. -Original Message- From: Bill McCormick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 July 2003 15:18 To: Vince Hoffman Subject: RE: problem starting cron as a service Thanks Vince, Nothing in cron.log (file created but empty

RE: problem starting cron as a service

. -Original Message- From: Vince Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 9:38 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: problem starting cron as a service Hi Bill, Off hand there are a few things to try, but Mark Harig on the cygwin list seems

RE: problem starting cron as a service

How do I run a prog as localsystem? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vince Hoffman Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 9:38 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: problem starting cron as a service Hi Bill, Off

RE: problem starting cron as a service

--login -i which will give you a bash shell running as SYSTEM. -Original Message- From: Bill McCormick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 July 2003 16:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: problem starting cron as a service How do I run a prog as localsystem? -Original

RE: problem starting cron as a service

: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vince Hoffman Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: problem starting cron as a service Opps thought from your previous message you already knew or i would have said. the easiest way is the at trick, from

RE: problem starting cron as a service

it. Todd C. Bowden HP Certified AtosOrigin 5000 S. Bowen Arlington, TX 76017 Office: 817-264-8211 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bill McCormick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 3:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: problem starting cron

RE: problem starting cron as a service

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bowden, Todd Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 3:21 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: problem starting cron as a service You have to install it as a service in order to see in from a Windows perspective

RE: starting cron

-Original Message- From: Pierre A. Humblet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 3:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: starting cron (text deleted) P.S.: perhaps testing for uid=400 and gid=401 could be added to the cron diagnostic. OK. Two new tests

RE: starting cron

. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 6:07 PM To: Harig, Mark Subject: RE: starting cron I ran the script . It did not find any problem. But it could not start the service cygrunsrv: Error starting a service

Re: starting cron

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 05:49:47PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello: cron diagnostic did not find any problems. but cron still does not work in my machine. I am attaching the cron diagnostic files as suggested. d:\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (nontsec) UID: 400(ckumar) GID: 401(mkpasswd)

Re: starting cron

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2003-06-20 15:50 +0200) I am unable to start the cron. I followed the instruction in /usr/doc/Cygwin/README_cron and used cygrunsrv to start the service But the services in my windows it was unable to start the cron. Any suggextions? /var/log/cron.log and Event Viewer

starting cron

I am unable to start the cron. I followed the instruction in /usr/doc/Cygwin/README_cron and used cygrunsrv to start the service But the services in my windows it was unable to start the cron. Any suggextions? Thanx -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

RE: starting cron

: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 9:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: starting cron I am unable to start the cron. I followed the instruction in /usr/doc/Cygwin/README_cron and used cygrunsrv to start the service But the services in my windows

Error Starting Cron

I had cron working perfectly, and executing my script appropriately. I rebooted, and now I get the following error upon loading cron. Any ideas as to what it means? cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: The service has not been started. This is what is in